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THE 

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LIGHT 

That is strong enough to illuminate the 
•way of life and to guide humanity in 
days of cloud and darkness. 


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FOREWORD. 


The purpose of this book is to set forth a method 
by which we may solve life’s problems; also come 
into the consciousness of our possibilities. 

We have been prone to think that our trials and 
troubles were really drawbacks, hindrances, stum¬ 
bling-blocks, and furthermore that we must endure 
to the end—“ bear the cross.” 

By our method we teach that every transaction in 
life is a help, a stepping-stone by which we ascend 
the ladder. We come to see and understand that 
we should not shrink from any ordeal, be it what 
it may, as each one brings light. 

After we understand this we get a new conception 
of life. It is, as it were, an awakening, and we be¬ 
come able to behold the infinite world and its pos- 



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FOREWORD. 


sibilities for human uplift but not in its height, 
breadth and depth. It simply brings us into a con¬ 
sciousness of the foundation from which we work. 
It enables us to become aware each day of improve¬ 
ment. 

The joy of life lies in the consciousness of the 
value of each day’s experiences; also of having taken 
one more step onward. 


INTRODUCTION. 


In the Power of the Holy Spirit, these thoughts 
are sent forth on a mission of helpfulness. 

By the adaptation of the righteous life, (not re¬ 
ligious creeds or an effete sectarianism), spiritual 
vision has been cleared. The difficulties for the in¬ 
dividual are made manifest, while at the same time 
an awakening to latent conscious indwelling power 
convinces that for all suffering there is a great solace 
in the revelation. 

It is progressive and educative, and by the gentle 
pushing of the disturbed mind towards the open 
path, develops a conviction as to where true hap¬ 
piness is to be found. 

To make the individual mind conscious of what 
life is and means, is the aim of this work. The 
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INTRODUCTION. 


experience derived has been so satisfying, so full of 
the joys of loving and living, that with a delightful 
sense of gratitude they are pointed out to the readers 
as gains cut in the face of the rock of difficulty to 
help the timid soul (weakened by adverse circum¬ 
stances), to climb to that height where the atmos¬ 
phere is the pure peace of God; and the view of the 
Kingdom, its purposes and meaning, so glorious 
and expanded that the mind, in its consciousness of 
latent power, desires to go on expanding—growing 
“ toward the spiritual stature of the fulness of 
Christ.” 

The ultimate result for every individual is de¬ 
velopment. The achievement of that development 
is a work for time and eternity. The power to 
achieve is inexhaustible. The love to encourage it, 
is everlasting. 

The spirit from whom we claim rightfully spirit¬ 
ual parentage, is anxious for us to know “ the joy 
of living ” rather than the pain of existing, and to 
that end, out of living experience, this book is writ¬ 
ten ; not to foster sickly, pious sentimentalism but to 
suggest in a practical way how to achieve true 


INTRODUCTION. 


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spiritual vigor as a precursor of physical health; 
how to use the power now possessed, that by so do¬ 
ing the mastered body proves itself to be the efficient 
servant of the spirit that commands it. 

Accepting truth wherever it is to be found, be in 
in the Bible or some less consulted book, or from 
the lips of those who have proven their possession 
of it by the strength and beauty of their well-ordered 
lives, there will not be any effort to make a fetish 
of any work of man. 

Whatever is helpful and encouraging to the in¬ 
dividual, be it ancient or modern, will be borrowed 
for these pages as an evidence of our purpose. 

Into the quiet, peaceful waters of spiritual educa¬ 
tion, the readers will float from storm to calm, there 
to increase their strength as they feed on Truth and 
contemplate their own ability to help the cause of 
righteousness and to recognize the power. 

In this world of flickering lights; for the guid¬ 
ance of humanity in the days of cloud and darkness, 
we offer this “Steady Light,” one that is strong 
enough to illuminate all the way and penetrating 
enough to throw its rays out in advance of the hur- 


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INTRODUCTION. 


rying feet, that they may not only pick their steps in 
the rough places but see far ahead of them, that 
their confidence may be fully inspired in the spirit 
of goodness that leads them. 

That spirit inspired Jesus of Nazareth to say, 
“ I am the light of the world.’’ And it was not the 
material man but the truth he had learned and lived, 
and the assurance concerning that Divine wisdom 
is, that “ the truth shall make you free.” 

It is the hope of all who have felt the blessing of 
this illuminating power that all may climb to where 
they will have a larger horizon lighted by—“ The 
Steady Light.” 


THE 

STEADY 

LIGHT 






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“THE STEADY LIGHT.” 


PRINCIPLES. 

I. The Divine in the human is the source and 
power of all spiritual uplift. 

II. The Divine in the human is Spirit. 

III. Spirit in humanity is power, and this power 
is in every individual and is given various names 
that, summed up, stand for what some call God. 

IV. Consciously or unconsciously, this spiritual 
influence is at work in every one, so that the better¬ 
ment goes on day by day. Resistance offered to the 
Spirit does not preclude the conquering by that 
Spirit. 

V. The use of this power is unavoidable, for it 
is God working, but the knowledge of it is the 


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stimulus to encouragement for the discouraged, and 
the result to him or her is new strength, new. pos¬ 
sibilities. Evolution and revolution are going on, 
making the individual better and eliminating that 
which is weak. 

VI. The power that works is with you. You 
are the instrument of its expression. It is working, 
it must work , for God is love and love never de¬ 
grades. Love never ceases to exercise its qualities; 
therefore every human being is progressing slowly; 
painfully it may be owing to heredity and environ¬ 
ment. 

VII. The Divine Spirit is expressed to human¬ 
ity in righteousness and its exhibition can be made 
more manifest by improving the environment. 

VIII. The attributes of God are covered by the 
word righteousness, and that is simply rightness in 
all, not some things. 

IX. It has been the habit of people in the past 
to consider God as a Being of Imagination’s shape, 
enthroned somewhere to be prayed to; but the God 
of humanity is within the human being and is that 
being’s means of expression of goodness, so far as 


“THE STEADY LIGHT.” 3 

he or she can, with the limitations of heredity and 
environment, give power of expression to them. 

X. The power of the mind to appeal to the in¬ 
dwelling Spirit is the prerogative of an intelligent 
being, seeking help of the Divine Spirit, and that 
may be designated as prayer; and we are assured 
that this Divine Spirit is able to do for us “ more 
than we can ask or think ”; and the command is, 
“ Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and its right¬ 
eousness, and all these things shall be added unto 
you,” and bear in mind that the Kingdom of God is 
within you. 

XI. Prayer is a helpful means of developing 
by the spirit, and in no way interferes with the laws 
that govern the universe. The operation of a law 
may be overridden by another law in an individual 
case, without in the least suspending the action of 
that law in other cases. Miracles are only revela¬ 
tions of the working of natural laws of which we 
may be ignorant. 


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HUMAN LIFE. 

With the allegories and myths of past ages we 
have nothing to do in this book. Human origin is 
our theme in this chapter, and our inspiration the 
facts of evolution. 

Trace backwards—man has to pass slowly to the 
simple protoplasm. An atom of “ slime ” as it has 
been called, but what a truly marvelous atom, mani¬ 
festing power in its creation that transcends any 
thought of a completed work in the so-called first 
man, summoned into being by any power. 

The protoplasm comes into our knowledge with 
a startling power, a pregnancy of Divinely born 
potentialities that are most wonderful in their order 
and marvelous in their outcome. In that little bit 
of slime—if that word conveys the seeming insig¬ 
nificance—we have the germs destined under the 


“THE STEADY LIGHT.’’ 5 

Divine law to grow into the intricate structures of 
the different systems of the human body. 

Here is no confusion; the osseous or bony system 
—the muscular and circulatory system—the nervous 
and cerebral system; all these are in this protoplasm 
in embryo, ready for development into cell life that 
shall live and die, build and disintegrate, until in 
the due processes of gestation the one cell grows into 
a multitude, and by the wonderful workings of 
nature there is an orderly development into the 
various stages of foetal life, and the ushering into 
the world of a male or female child to go on in the 
progressive conditions that surround humanity. 

In that protoplasm was hidden the germs of the 
master minds of Plato, Jesus, Shakespeare, Goethe, 
Confucius, Zoroaster, or any of the modern pro¬ 
ducts of exalted humanity, and these have been the 
out-birth of heredity and environment. 

It may be asked, if the protoplasm gives forth 
these great products why is not all humanity alike? 
Why do these geniuses not prevail? The answer 
lies in the influences that are brought to bear upon 
the cell life, that producing altered conditions, brings 


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forth altered results; and it is the results and the 
possibilities of bettering them, that we in this book, 
shall direct attention to; as we have no intention of 
invading the field of physical science which belongs 
to the physiologist. 

It is clear that all men are not “ created equal.” 
As the switch upon the railroad track diverts the 
train of cars from the main line to a side track, so 
are there mental, physical and spiritual forces that 
operate upon mind, body and spirit, producing 
changes that, while always operative for progress, 
through elimination and environment are hindered 
and slowed down in their processes. It is to quicken 
the powers, to push the human train upon the main 
track again, to stimulate these forces, that we 
awaken the unconscious individual to the fact that 
the suppressed power is inherent, that hereditary in¬ 
fluences can be overcome and spiritual progress can 
be made in life, and that the present environment is 
a means to that end. 

Stand still we cannot; creep we may, run we will, 
and in this running, what exhilaration! what de¬ 
lightful consciousness of betterment! what exalta- 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 


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tion of mind as development goes on and strength 
of being is felt until the “ joy of living ” comes into 
the life like mountain air, invigorating until there 
is a realization of power that has overcome weak¬ 
ness ! 

The spirit of helpfulness is the spirit of progress 
—progress for yourself as the helper and for the 
person helped. To enable the man to rise, to see 
that he has in himself the power to rise; nay, more, 
that the moment his mind grasps that idea he is 
conscious of rising and that in spite of his stum¬ 
blings, which may be very painful, he is climbing; 
it may be on his hands and knees as it were; the 
road is rough and his strength weak but he is climb¬ 
ing upwards—there is only the one road. 

In human life there are those who become, owing 
to heredity and environment, what society calls 
criminals. Constituted as they are, temptation 
operates with them and being weak they yield, but 
out of that very criminal atmosphere we see how, 
that under new influences and environments, they 
respond and by virtue of what is in themselves they 
are aroused to a new hope and a new life. 


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Whatever credit may be given to the part played 
in that progress by others, the fact remains that the 
resurrection to a new life is the individual’s own act 
under the encouragement of those helpful minds 
that simply live to lift, and for every one lifted there 
is just so much new power developed for the good 
of humanity. 

To get the best power out of every individual is 
the work for every one that knows how, and they 
who have experienced in themselves the working of 
this power, have discovered that “ there is that scat¬ 
tered, yet increased; and there is that withholdeth 
more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.” 

So helpfulness to others is the key-note of our 
gospel, for therein lies our individual enlargement, 
our self-helping to a higher, nobler life. 

Humanity, like a child that its teachers have not 
understood, has been hungering for helpful love, 
and it has experienced censure, criticism, con¬ 
demnation and been promised punishment. Its ad¬ 
monitions have been of this order—that to get some¬ 
thing it must do something, believe something 
(often the impossible) and ultimately, if the belief 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 1 


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were persistent, there would be a lifting out of finite 
misery into infinite bliss, which bliss has as varied 
a complexion as the chameleon and often partakes of 
that which was positively repulsive to the intelli¬ 
gence that contemplated it as a reward for right¬ 
doing. 

“ Human depravity ” entailed by Adam and Eve 
has been a discouraging feature, and its making a 
vicarious atonement a necessity in human redemp¬ 
tion has been one of the puzzles that has perplexed 
thousands, aye, millions, into unbelief. 

To be a believer meant to be saved; to be an un¬ 
believer, to be damned—whatever that involved. 

That man needs redemption, salvation from “ the 
sin that does so easily beset him,” is clear if his 
heredity has produced it and his environment ag¬ 
gravated it, but every being is responsible for his 
or her own actions and “ no man can redeem his 
brother or give to God a ransom for him.” 

It could not be the act of a loving God to re¬ 
quire death at the hands of the human Jesus as a 
means of canceling the so-called sin of the world. 


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" THE STEADY LIGHT. 


Justice stands aghast at such an imputation concern¬ 
ing the Holy Spirit. 

In spiritual evolution we see the process of racial 
redemption. Jesus declared it was “ his meat and 
drink to do the will of Him that sent him, ,, and 
we may admit, for the sake of avoiding time-eating 
useless argument, that this same Jesus lived a life 
nearer to absolute perfection than any other Master 
Teacher we have record of. 

But with the more unfortunate of the world, 
whose conception and in-coming to the world has 
been vitiated and whose growth is hindered by en¬ 
vironment, we can say that such human beings are 
doing their best at that time when they are doing 
their worst. 

The remedy for that worst is not condemnation, 
but education, personal revelation that will awaken 
the individual to a consciousness of the Spirit’s 
power and of what it can do with the body—how it 
can work through thinking, feeling and choosing 
to produce an entirely different condition to the one 
that exists. 

The power to work with the man or woman is the 


“THE STEADY LIGHT.’ 


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Divine Spirit. Work is that Spirit’s desire. Jesus 
revealed this when he said—“ My Father worketh 
hitherto and I work,” and the human mind is de¬ 
clared to be “ a worker together with God.” 

That being so, it must appear that the reason the 
worst in man is not better, is because of ignorance 
concerning the power to begin the reformation; a 
willing power because a loved power; an omnipotent 
power because a Holy Spirit power. 

If the process, the growth, be slow, it is because 
the soil is poor and unworked, but the Lord of the 
vineyard is patient with the poorest tree and we are 
told that he will dig about it and cultivate it. He 
will not cut it down—he lets patience have its per¬ 
fect work. And when this work produces results 
the hitherto barren, blind individual bears fruit in 
deeds and declares the indisputable fact to the world 
—“ Whereas I was blind, now I see,” and by just 
so much of the individual progress is the whole 
world made better. “ No man liveth unto himself.” 

Each life or individual personality has to work 
out its own future. It has the power to use and the 


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will to choose, and it is because it does not know 
of its sovereign right that it suffers until it does. 

When you realize what you are and where you 
are, then you will also realize what you may be; 
not by any startling miracle; not by any baptismal 
regeneration, but by your own work with the spirit 
power within your self, exercised at this moment 
for yourself and others. 

The road before you is not forked but straight. 
It only needs that you go forward. It does not 
promise you immunity from ruts and stumbling- 
blocks, but it does promise you that if you keep 
moving upon it you will increase strength and will 
be progressing towards better things. 

The desert is not pleasant traveling, but you have 
to go forward to get to the oasis, and past that to 
the civilization and comfort that lies beyond. Every 
stumbling-block means benefit to you. It is in the 
way as a stepping-stone towards the advancement 
of your own achievement. 

Now we are ready to see how we can apply this 
power. It is, as it were, the mere pressing of a 
button; the power is there. Perhaps it is in your 


“ THE STEADY LIGHT. 


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nature as the result of heredity and environment to 
be cross and surly; to say the unkind, cutting thing. 
It runs in your blood and is aggravated by impure 
air and unsuitable food, drink and associations. 

Now you know you have these to contend with 
and keep back your progress. You can discover the 
causes for these effects. You do recognize the dis¬ 
ease. Every act that you know to be unhelpful is 
done simply because of your own undeveloped 
knowledge, and you do it because you have not be¬ 
come conscious of the divine in you that can enable 
you to overcome it, cast it out, and substitute for it 
the reverse in thought and deed. 

This is being done in you slowly, it may be, and 
you may not have the joy and peace that knowledge 
of it would bring. Let me illustrate. 

You come down in the morning to your breakfast. 
The air that you have been breathing all night has 
been bad; you are cross—clogged up physically. 
You are willing to let it go at that and so you start 
in to grumble. Your words are acid. They dis¬ 
tract the mind of some one whose environments were 
no better than your own. Your lower na^e is re- 


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sisting and you are bringing out the lower nature of 
your wife, or sister, or daughter, who also resists. 

Now don’t you see where you fail to be sovereign 
of yourself—to let the God-part work? You should 
pull yourself together; sweeten your words; quench 
the fire in your eyes. The divine part of you tells 
you that you are unwise. Choke back the bitter 
word of complaint! Say the kind thing; look the 
divine out of your eyes—then note its effect on 
others. 

When they find that gentleness is going to be the 
regular thing, they will feel that it would be shame¬ 
ful to quarrel since you don’t and you will see the 
reasonableness of it all and make the best of it. 

You have let goodness rule, and as you go out to 
your day’s duty it will be with the heart and triumph 
of a victor. 

All day long that power in your soul will enable 
you to realize its helpfulness. Home will have a 
new attractiveness for you. Every one you come in 
contact with will be glad of your change in disposi¬ 
tion, and when they realize you have achieved vic¬ 
tory and mean to stay victor, they will begin to 


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think, and thinking they will wonder, and wonder 
will end in conviction that you have changed— 
changed for the better. You are more agreeable to 
do business with, and if it is so with you, why not 
with them? They have the power as well as you 
and they will learn to use it and so the good work 
will go on—a Divine work. 

To accept the willingly given help is your privi¬ 
lege. No sect, no church, no priest has had any¬ 
thing to say to it. You have used the power and 
you are a better man or woman because of so doing. 
Keep on using it, and it will so grow upon you that 
the heredity will be overcome, the environment will 
be changed; your very gentleness will make you 
great. 

“ Man, know thyself,” was an old philosopher's 
instruction, and it is good for to-day. “ The proper 
study for man is man.” Study yourself and apply 
the alkali of wisdom to the acidity of humanity and 
it will be neutralized. 

I might go through every weakness that human 
flesh is heir to, but it would only be a shifting of 
words and circumstances. The principle of cure is 


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the same for all. If you will follow the law of good¬ 
ness it will be your saviour—not by a surrender of a 
life as ecclesiastically taught to a public executioner. 
No, not by any shifting of your responsibility in a 
spirit of injustice to another's shoulders, but by 
reason of your adoption of the simple principles of 
goodness. 

The reward that comes to the righteous from 
right doing is the reward of peace—the peace of 
goodness which passeth all understanding. 

Purity of spirit is the result of the personal ac¬ 
ceptance of the Divine helper within, that agitates 
the nature to throw off its impurities. “ I would 
have you, like the waters of the ocean, to become 
the purer by your own action." The waves of the 
sea are brooms to the sky; they sweep the dust from 
its low hanging drapery of clouds. 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 


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THE WAY UP. 

While the physician has his particular sphere in 
which to help the ailing in such organic troubles as 
require his professional skill, it is clear that drugs, 
however useful in giving nature what she can use 
in the human laboratory, cannot meet all require¬ 
ments. There is a mental sphere that, being dis¬ 
ordered, needs other treatment. 

The mind diseased is too often the cause of bodily 
ailment, and the wise doctor, recognizing that fact, 
realizes that it will be quite out of his power to 
treat the pyschic conditions while pursuing the 
professional requirements of his general practice; 
so, as an adjunct to his work, in order to get the 
best results he secures services for his patient that 
will afford that kind of relief which that patient 
needs and he, unaided, cannot give, namely, a good, 


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healthy, well-ordered home, where the body being 
well cared for under his orders, the mind is roused 
to full conception of its power and the eyes opened 
to what has hampered. 

Environment produces mental conditions that 
may result in mental disease out of which come 
physical results. The lowering of the vital forces 
means the slowing down of the physical machinery 
until the mind doubts its own power to increase 
the speed. 

Every human being has a mission in the world, 
and our object is to point the way up to those who 
are in the shadow of their own bewilderment and 
concluding nothing can be done, nurse their griev¬ 
ances. 

There may be no question that with all as factors 
in the great plan of the universe there is no such 
thing as uselessness or retrogression. The aggre¬ 
gate humanity are moving forward, growing better. 
Each unit helps in the great work, but the question 
for you as a unit is not, Have I done anything, for 
that you have? but, Have I gotten the best out of 
myself and others with whom I came in contact? 


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Have I used my power to the best advantage, for 
my own nature and that of others for their uplift¬ 
ing? 

Granted that your environment is not the best, 
have you aimed and worked to make it better? 
Have weak companions tried to drag you their way 
and sought to get you to use your powers on their 
level? Have you sought new companionship that 
would draw you up, and when you have felt the 
benefit and the blessing of the divine lifting power 
within, have you reached down after those who 
have tried to draw and keep you down and lifted 
them? 

The very effort means more strength, and the 
silent influence of your life creates an atmosphere 
that means health to a soul to breathe. 

While I have striven to point out one way in 
which trouble comes to a mind diseased, yet do I 
see a hundred ways where effort must be put forth 
to secure development, and it can be done. 

And so it is with all the unlovely manifestations. 
The power that produces them is perverted power. 
Use it aright. 


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THE TEACHINGS OF EXPERIENCE. 

Illuminated humanity, shining by the power 
of the Spirit of God, is the divine, helpful, dynamic 
force that is lighting and lifting the human race 
into a clearer, brighter atmosphere. The Master 
Jesus gave voice to a great truth—“ Let your light 
so shine before men that they may see, ,, and that 
very illumination which you are giving—be it less 
or more—is the power that is working the present 
changes in the world. 

Whatever notion the reader may have as to his 
or her worthlessness in this world, let that notion 
be dismissed. You are a divine power doing a 
divine work through human machinery, and the 
work for you to do is to give that Spirit facilities to 
work that men may see the shining of your good 
works. The light is in you to shine; let it shine. 


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If happiness is to be induced, blame must cease 
because blame is discouraging. It has nothing help¬ 
ful in it. 

A little girl, deemed by her parents bad and stub¬ 
born, was scolded in the presence of a gentle, loving 
woman who was her aunt, and the child sulked into 
stubbornness and brought forth more condemnation 
from her exasperated parents, who declared she was 
incorrigible and had no good in her. 

The aunt called the child and caressing her, said, 
“ Why, I think Evelyn is a good little girl.” The 
child burst into tears and buried her face in her 
aunt’s bosom as she sobbed out, “ Auntie, I’ll do 
anything you want me to, but that’s the way they’re 
always talking and scolding me and I won’t be good 
for them.” 

The power was there but not drawn forth. Here 
was a case of parents’ discouraging their child— 
not bringing out the best—whereas the little flash of 
loving sympathy brought forth the spirit of willing¬ 
ness to be led aright. 

Another illustration comes up in adult life. A 
young woman nominally connected with the Bap- 


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tist Church, was called upon by the Pastor who 
inquired as to her spiritual condition and learned 
that, according to his notions, she could not be num¬ 
bered amongst the saved. 

He labored with her to accept Jesus as her Saviour 
and secure for herself salvation by his atoning blood. 

To her progressive mind this was impossible; 
she could not see the justice of such a substitution. 
To this he replied that she was retrograding and 
would be lost, but she was aware that she was 
slowly and surely unfolding, developing strength 
and beauty in her life. All that she needed for de¬ 
velopment was to let patience have her perfect work 
—to let the God within her, working with her, over¬ 
come the weakness and bring forth the strength. 
She felt her progress—he guessed at her retrogres¬ 
sion. 

He called her attention to the Scripture—“ The 
wicked shall be turned into Hell,” and classified her, 
because she had not accepted the Scriptural salvation 
as he read it, as one of the wicked. 

Her response was that such an utterance never 
came from God, but from man, and contradicted 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 


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itself because it was directly in opposition to the 
divine declaration that God is Love—Perfect Love, 
and “ Perfect love casteth out fear: because fear 
hath torment ” in it. 

But the torment was in his mind, not in hers. 
He feared that the wicked or unbelievers in his 
Shibboleth world would be doomed to burn forever 
and ever in the “ lake of fire and brimstone,” while 
she felt perfectly secure in the love and justice of 
God; also in spiritual progression which she was 
making in the conquering of herself and the de¬ 
velopment into a nobler and more useful life. 

Poor man! he left her with the sadness of heart 
that he would have left one doomed to physical 
execution under the law that he had no power to 
prevent. 

It has to be borne in mind that natures and abili¬ 
ties differ, and while the progress in one case of in¬ 
ferior ability may appear slow, it may in reality be 
greater than that of the more gifted individual. 

Cases might be chronicled of men and women who 
years ago have been awakened to a conception of 
their own power, and the result is visible to-day 


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because of the God-power within them which has 
been permitted to work (and they have realized that 
it was there to work), and it has resulted in changes 
of methods in daily life that have compelled com¬ 
ment upon the improvement in disposition and 
action. 

There is nothing helpful in blame, nor does it 
accomplish any reformation to harp upon the weak¬ 
ness of a life, when there is so much that is bene¬ 
ficial that can be done. 

We have all to admit the frailty of ourselves and 
others. The potent element for our betterment lies 
in our strength and when we are awakened to the 
fact that we are using that strength and can use it 
so much more, who can fail to see that the best 
course to be pursued is to show the struggling being 
that we not only recognize the latent power but 
realize that it is being used—not to the fullest ad¬ 
vantage, it may be, but being used so that it can be 
said evolution is going on which nothing can pre¬ 
vent, and the elimination of that which is weak 
means all the more room and opportunity for the 
development of what is strong. 


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Now, what has produced this weakness, this need 
of effort on our part? Surely not a traditional 
apple-eating on the part of Adam and Eve. No, but 
the imperfections of our forebears manifesting them¬ 
selves in us, producing what we term an hereditary 
condition that is productive of what is called evil. 

This evil is the latent product of their ignorance, 
which is brought to fruition or withered, according 
to the soil of environment. 

That which is must be. The wrong perpetrated 
by the individual may be glaring and reprehensible 
from civilization’s stand-point, but what if it is 
absolutely unavoidable, the working out of what 
must work? 

When this consciousness enters the mind, then 
conflict ceases and contentment dawns; for then the 
sufferer becomes aware that what is, is best and that 
there is no process of defilement wrought by the 
action but rather a cleansing. 

As the fermenting liquor throws off its impurities, 
so does the nature of the human being enter into the 
upward struggle, and fault is not found with what 
comes but the mind takes in its purpose and sees 


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that means can be adapted to produce better results. 
And as environments are changed—willingly 
changed by the individual and those whose progress 
has made them helpers, the work of enlightenment 
goes on and results come as surely in the life as the 
light illuminates the darkness. 

If we see what we call wrong done, shall we 
blame and punish for what is born in the delin¬ 
quent? If that transgression works in avoidance of 
its reputation, shall we not see in it an evidence of 
a helping force? 

If the lower self of the so-called criminal resists 
the spirit of goodness and manifests the lower self, 
as it has a right to do, shall we not seek for a 
remedy to prevent the production of such beings, 
whose inherited lower selves are the cause of viola¬ 
tion of divine principles? 

The men and women of our day realize the sacred 
responsibility of propagating the highest type of 
their species. The reasons satisfying many parental 
natures for the marrying of two persons to produce 
offspring need to be analyzed. Defective beings 
are induced to see sufficient reason for their mar- 


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27 


riage in the mere matter of securing a home or 
the gratifying of mere animal desire. 

Here is one fertile field for the evidence of hered¬ 
ity, and the men and women of to-day must train 
the children of both sexes to understand what the 
" holiest state of matrimony ” means to the human 
family, and that for race reasons it must not be 
entered into without due consideration. 

To bring this about, agitation together with edu¬ 
cation and legislation should be set to work. 

“ Race suicide ” is in our day a fanciful ex¬ 
pression. “ Civilization suicide ” is far more prev¬ 
alent. 

If there be not first, sufficient means to make the 
home a center of spiritual development, and sec¬ 
ondly, a true conception and intelligent understand¬ 
ing of the parental responsibility to the unborn, and 
a duty to righteousness and the mass of humanity, 
should it not be cultivated ? 

The product of the unfit is not so rare as to be 
looked for in the physically defective alone. The 
morally defective are those for whom the divine 


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law awaits co-operation before they undertake to 
propagate their species. 

Righteousness is not a thing of sect or creed, but 
an inwoven principle, and the divine purpose has 
been, and is, to enable us to understand life and to 
teach us by a variety of means. “ This is the way; 
walk ye in it.” 

Tirelessly it is sought by this labor of love to set 
us right, good always working with us for the bet¬ 
terment of conditions. 

The Holy Spirit makes no errors, and when we 
overcome, the crown is ours, and over the race that 
is evolving there is a recognition of the worth—of 
the development out of which happiness comes and 
continually increases and grows into a greater con¬ 
sciousness of privileges and powers as they unfold 
out of the infinite universe. 


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AN UNAPPRECIATED FORCE. 

All nature is a storehouse of undreamed of 
force. In the regions where cold holds sway, the 
grinding, mighty roar of the moving iceberg as it 
breaks away under the lifting of the tide, tells of a 
power that is beyond us to correctly estimate. 

Down in the hot bowels of the earth, inpouring 
water generates the force of steam and the moun¬ 
tainous volcano is set to belching forth its terrors, 
while the great crust of earth trembles and gapes 
in throes of mighty agony. 

Over the mighty sea the sun bends down its rays, 
and lo! the expansive waters are lifted to the clouds 
in vapor and the great cohorts are swept across the 
sky. The wind leaps up in anger, belching forth its 
thunders that crack, rend, tear and bellow as if 
some monster of the universe were just let loose to 


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have its way and teach mankind the lesson of its 
helplessness against such mighty force. 

The noiseless forces are no less impressive by their 
power, as for instance electricity, whose unexpected 
presence reveals itself as the current penetrates the 
unsuspecting man and ends his life. 

In this incoming of the Spirit a new force is born, 
and the breath divine starts into being a mind whose 
will and work may move his fellows on to new 
successes in the fields of goodness. No force in all 
the world is so great a force as that of the Spirit. 

It is said that if the horse knew his power man 
could not control him, for he has the strength of six 
men. If man knew his spirit-power the adverse 
could not control him, for by that power he would 
most rapidly rise over all difficulties created for him 
by heredity and environment. 

It is no longer in order for us to consider man a 
weakling. His ignorance of the strength in his 
being is what holds him back temporarily in the con¬ 
quering march. Mark you, I say holds him back 
temporarily, for nothing can hold him back per- 


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manently because it is the divine part of him that 
must triumph and can never be defeated. 

The Spirit of righteousness is in all men, women 
and children of the human race, working out with 
them the great problem of human betterment. No 
where in the universe is man standing still; the hu¬ 
man being is progressing. He is learning to know 
God by attributes—the only way he can know. 

It is true that, owing to the dead weight of her¬ 
edity and environment, progress is often slow, but 
the divine part of us never gets discouraged. 

It may be asked, what can be said of the progress 
of the so-called vile wretch whose blood-stained 
hands try to ward off the shadow of the gallows 
or electric chair. 

Our prisons are full of men and women whose 
first moral light came to them through the loving, 
practical, helpful ministrations of such women as 
Mrs. Ballington Booth. It availed nothing to tell 
these people that they were sinners, criminals. 
They knew they were in the eyes of humanity by rea¬ 
son of the bars that confronted them, but that there 
was anything good in them no one had ever stopped 


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to tell them. Condemnation they had heard, but 
redemption—restoration, was unknown. 

Who can judge of the capability of a darkened 
soul to receive enlightenment? Creatures of judg¬ 
ment, we have been given to judging until we have 
fairly drawn lines between sections of humanity 
and declared some good and some bad. This in 
the face of the command of Jesus,—“ Judge not 
that ye be not judged, for with the measure ye 
mete it shall be measured to you again.” And it is 
this very condition, the outcome of broken law, 
that keeps back our own development; it walls 
us in. 

What would be the result if we all set to work 
to help our fellows rather than to criticize? Until 
it is recognized that all humanity is doing some¬ 
thing to help him or herself to rise, doing the very 
best they can with the nature they have, this wall 
will not be surmounted. 

Let all conceive that there is work to be done, 
and get those least adapted to the work that is to 
be done, doing it; doing what they can, and the very 
happiness of conscious employment will spur the 


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mind. There is a truth in the old saw,—“ Satan 
finds some mischief still for idle hands to do. ,, 

Get the world of men and women to work and 
half the sorrows will be met. The discouragement 
of humanity is a grievous lack of understanding. 
While it may not result in the changing of the in¬ 
dividual life, which is progressing as fast as it can, 
yet it does create a sourness of mind to realize that 
they who should be our helpers are dwarfed into 
our critics. 

Think what results would be gained in increased 
ambition, if humanity was only made aware by you 
that you recognized the fact that the divine within 
every human being was working for its salvation. 

Given a multitude of all sorts of humanity, some 
eminently respectable in manners and garb, others 
the very reverse; a class of Ishmaelites, so-called, 
who just drop in to see if you, who are leading that 
meeting, are one of the crowd who preaches, con¬ 
demns and threatens in God’s name, future punish¬ 
ment. Possibly they have had hard time, but they 
are better spiritually because of it. 

All this has been unavoidable, but it is working 


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out good in them and you must now realize that 
not only will this help you but you must now go to 
work to help some one else in any way that comes to 
your hand, and that very doing for others is the 
best way to help yourself. Then the divine spark 
will have a better chance to kindle and burn away 
the “ wood, hay, and stubble ” of weak character, 
and do better building. 

The concern of the mind of the human being is 
not what kind of a God he worships, where he is 
and how he looks. His and her concern is, Am I, 
in character, anything like the attributes of the 
character I have attributed to Divinity? 

The proof of God in us lies in the evidence of the 
indwelling Holy Spirit that is responsible for all 
our good. That Spirit is ever working to uplift, 
and it is true what Jesus said of the Divine Spirit: 
“ Without me ye can do nothing.” 

Only by the adoption of the Nazarene’s principles 
can we succeed. We are the gods of this world be¬ 
cause of the God in every one of us. 

We are all struggling up to a higher life. With 
many the climb is a very slow process; oftentimes 


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35 


discouraging, but to every one who gets this thought 
fixed in the mind—that the power is within them, 
—will accomplish steadily and surely what seemed 
unlikely before a consciousness of that knowledge. 

The power of this Holy Spirit within us, once 
realized and appreciated, means a conscious uplift. 
The help of the divine element in man means to the 
individual a sense of companionship in good works. 
There comes into the soul a feeling of power; power 
that can be increased; power that is never-failing 
and only waiting to be used up to any demand possi¬ 
ble in human life. 

It was just that feeling of confidence that made 
Paul say,—“ I can do all things through Christ, 
who strengthens me ”—and that same confidence 
can be yours in even a greater degree, for while 
there are disputes as to the Deity-ship of Jesus and 
his consequent power, it is to the Fountain-Head 
you turn—the Spirit of the Infinite. 


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“THE STEADY LIGHT.” 


PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT BY SPIRIT¬ 
UAL POWER. 

“ A sound mind in a sound body ” is an old say¬ 
ing, but it is the experience of all that a magnifi¬ 
cent mind can occupy a very weak and indifferent 
body, and the reasons for it are manifold and mani¬ 
fest. 

We might name many of the class referred to, 
living and dead, but it is not for us to advertise their 
infirmities; suffice it to say that many a child comes 
into the world handicapped by the weakness of body 
that is the result of hereditary disease. Many more 
are so situated that hardship and deprivation of 
what is necessary for development is responsible 
for the dwarfing of power when coupled with the 
fact that we resist the Spirit, which does not per¬ 
sistently assert itself because of human sovereignty, 


“ THE STEADY LIGHT.” 


37 


but the resistance ultimately gives way, as man be¬ 
comes enlightened as to the purpose and power of 
the Spirit, for the overcoming of hereditary weak¬ 
ness. Natural law cannot be set aside by circum¬ 
stances or sentiment. 

That physically there is no universal food for the 
sustaining of the body is clear. In one land the 
frame of the child, man or woman, is nourished upon 
black rye bread; in another, potatoes or rice are the 
staples, while with a third a meat diet eaten under 
exposure upon the prairies or in the woods is the 
practice, and this all goes to show that nature is 
willing to use many different kinds of material for 
the building up of the body. 

But as the food is, so is the body; coarseness of 
feature is not all natural. 

It is by the use of nervous force that all elements 
for upbuilding the body and the carrying off of 
effete material (so far as the body is concerned) is 
accomplished. When the mind of the individual is 
occupied with every other concern than the well¬ 
being of the body, it must appear that the physical 
organs are robbed of necessary nervous force, and 


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while the brain and sources of mental power are 
nourished and stimulated, the diverted force but 
half serves the digestive and muscular system and 
the result is disease, decay and premature death. A 
robbed body resents the outrage; no matter how 
fine the mind, it has developed its acuteness at the 
cost of everything else. 

In a healthy body spirit must control matter, and 
the divine sovereignty of the man or woman be 
asserted. We find that in the mental field the in¬ 
discretion or ambition, which is the disease of a 
virtue, results in a neglect of the physical, causing 
a transference, at first, of nervous force, and finally 
a famine of it because the mind, in its lust for knowl¬ 
edge or fame, has thrust aside all other interests 
until, in the end, nature rebels and the decimation of 
power is completed and sealed by either prolonged 
decay or death. 

Evoluted man has the Divine image in him, and 
dominion that means sovereignty, and that sov¬ 
ereignty is divine and spiritual. The spirit is high¬ 
est in man, so beside the old saying, “ Man, know 
thyself/’ should be put another, “ Man, rule thy- 


“ THE STEADY LIGHT.” 39 

self.” And we are told that—“ He who ruleth him¬ 
self is greater than he that taketh a city.” 

To utilize the forces of nature for one’s own bene¬ 
fit is to be a good spiritual ruler, and so we have 
found out that water, clean, pure water, is one of 
the spirit’s servants, that when applied to the body, 
means a certain percentage of health. “ Cleanliness 
is next to godliness,” and we should not desire the 
Divine Spirit to dwell in an uninviting temple, for 
such the body is declared to be by Paul, when he 
asks in astonishment at the ignorance,—“ Know ye 
not that your body is the temple of God ? ” And 
with this conception of the honor bestowed upon the 
body, he distinctly tells them to keep their bodies 
washed with pure water. 

Bathing and thorough cleansing of the body are 
amongst first things, so get your mind conscious 
that the body must have the pores open, the tissues 
softened and the blood kept in a proper state of 
fluidity for the carrying over the system the build¬ 
ing material and the removing of that which has 
served its purpose—and this brings us to the second 
point of importance: The proper enriching of that 


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blood and the expenditure of nervous force upon the 
process of digestion. 

A mind preoccupied at mealtime is to the body as 
the engine without a governor. Food bolted with¬ 
out the mind controlling its mastication reaches the 
stomach in a condition that means defective as¬ 
similation. As well might it be in a tin can for 
all the good it does the individual who wastes away, 
in spite of the quantity taken in but not used by 
nature. 

The effect of a shock is manifested in the stomach. 
Take a sensitive being brought suddenly face to 
face with a painful accident, in which a fellow being 
has been lacerated and bruised, and the hunger ex¬ 
perienced a few minutes before has all disappeared 
and the individual says, “ My appetite has all gone. 
I could not eat a morsel. I am actually sick at my 
stomach.” Yet what is the fact! The new con¬ 
dition is purely a mental one. Nothing has been 
done, no physical touch has taken place, and yet 
there has been that great change wrought simply 
through eyes and ears. 

There are numerous cases on record where im- 


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4i 


agination seemed to produce a dreaded disease when 
there was no possible chance for contagion or infec¬ 
tion. Men and women have died under a supposed 
infliction. Bodies have been marked with the 
crimson stripes of scourging never administered. It 
is a well-attested fact that these manifest physical 
results do come about by mental influence. This 
brings us to the important fact that disease mani¬ 
festing itself physically through purely mental in¬ 
fluence, it must follow that the mental influence can 
be used alike to prevent and cure. 

Drugs or electrical apparatus may be beneficially 
employed to aid the debilitated organs of the body 
and enrich the blood as the life stream, but the 
mind must be brought into such a state of repose 
that there will be no failure on its part to co-oper¬ 
ate with the efforts of the physician. The cure of 
the mind must run parallel with the cure of the 
body. The harp of a thousand strings must be 
tuned so that discord will be impossible. Harmony 
must be produced and the question is, How ? What 
shall we do to bring about this result ? 

The different temperaments make one definite 


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course impossible. No hard and fast rule can be 
set down, but certain general principles acted upon 
will result in the discovery of what is individually 
needed: 

i st: There must be an acknowledgment of the 
enthroned power, and a due recognition of the 
quality it exercises, namely, love. 

2nd: Get the mind in tune with the Infinite, so 
that it is cleansed of all hatred and suffused with 
the happy contemplation of the efficiency of life. 

3rd: Meet all in the same spirit in which you are, 
absolutely refusing to allow yourself to yield to 
any ruffling agency. 

4th: Give your mind to the work of your body, 
be it in eating or moving, and see to it that your 
muscles obey you. If you walk, be conscious of 
your movements and plant your feet where, and as, 
they ought to be. If you eat, avoid such abstruse 
thoughts as would take your nervous force, in part 
or whole, away from the digestive processes. 

5th: Set your mind upon pure things, high 
things, and refuse to allow it to dwell upon the 
thing that does not exalt. 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 


43 


6th. Contemplate the pleasant things, the clean, 
humorous thing; search into its meaning and set 
your mind in a happy frame of thought. 

7th: Realize that worry about anything, whether 
it be health of body or wealth of purse, accomplishes 
nothing for the relief of the difficulty, but does dis¬ 
tinctly operate against the processes for repair. 

Perhaps you may say, what human being ever so 
controlled his mind and lived such an acceptable 
life? I answer, Jesus of Nazareth. He was a man 
—nothing more and no less, and being that was 
great. Wherein did he show his greatness ? By his 
simplicity. In what was he active ? In going about 
doing good. 

Gentle, he was nevertheless forcible; religious, yet 
he put forth no creed. He needs not to be defied to 
be our great exemplar. He had as a man the cap¬ 
acity to receive and use the power of the Spirit, and 
he declared that we, with it, could do greater things 
than he. 

Were he more than human, he ceases to be our 
pattern and renders following impossible. His con¬ 
ception of God was shown in his personal right- 


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eousness. More righteous than we, he was enabled 
to reveal more of the character of God in goodness, 
and by the record of his life, humanity is encouraged 
to use the power it has for the increasing of the 
value of its own life. 

Use your body worthily. 


“THE STEADY LIGHT.’ 


45 


THE LAW OF CORRESPONDENCE. 

Are you awake to the great fact of what you are ? 
If not, then understand that your helpful power is 
the spirit enthroned in the body. The body is but 
a case for the spirit, and it, like the spirit, exists 
under law. After death, “ the body shall return 
to dust as it was, and the spirit shall return to the 
God who gave it.” “ Dust thou art and to dust 
thou shalt return,” is absolutely true of the body. 

A friend of mine has seen a coffin opened after 
twenty years of inurning, and little hillocks of gray 
dust were all that was left of the mortal from whose 
body the immortal tenant had survived in the in¬ 
finite. No greater fallacy was ever hoisted upon a 
credulous people than the doctrine of “ the resur¬ 
rection of the body.” It is only dust and water, and 
when it has served its purpose as a tabernacle for the 
Spirit, it reverts through' Nature’s laboratory to the 


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earth and air for renewed service. The doctrine of 
“ the resurrection of the body ” is a misinterpreta¬ 
tion which has no foundation in fact. 

Matter may change its atomic relationship but 
it never can be destroyed; no more can spirit, be¬ 
cause it is divine. It behooves us, therefore, to 
study the spirit and its bodily connection, that we 
may see the correspondence between the two. 

When the spirit and the body are out of harmony, 
you have trouble, war. When they are at one, you 
have peace. War between these two may mean only 
nervous, functional disturbance, or it may mean 
disease, organic disease. The work set before us all 
is to wisely and worthily get the best out of our 
bodies. Dominion implies authority, and the first 
exercise of authority must be by your own will, over 
your own body. 

The first thing to get rooted in your mind is that 
life is a blessing—as that is assured, for a spirit of 
love, dwelling in you, comes only into your being to 
bless. If the divine spirit always ruled your mind 
you would be full of sunshine, hope and helpful¬ 


ness. 


“ THE STEADY LIGHT.’ 


47 


When, for instance, you have what is commonly 
called the “ blues,” that is an unnatural condition 
and is an indication that the mind is dictating to the 
spirit. If one is gloomy they want gloomy things 
about them.. They get off in a dark corner by them¬ 
selves. They think that they are the worst treated 
people in the world. 

The surroundings of a man or woman, or their 
own person, show the state of the mind. The man 
who is always carrying a burden of trouble thinks 
that everybody else is better off than he. He takes 
no interest in anything. 

You know how it is in an electro-plating factory. 
Attached to the bath, or tank of solution, is a battery. 
The thing to be plated is suspended in the solution 
and forms a metallic attraction for the silver, copper 
or gold in the solution, and it is deposited all over it. 
And so with the body; the invisible thought of the 
mind is deposited upon it. 

Is your mind angry? Then just look at your face 
in the glass. See the fury in the eyes, the pallor of 
passion in the cheeks; the drawn mouth; the cor¬ 
rugated brow. Are you full of avarice and selfish 


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greed? Why, it need not be told; it is written on 
your face, in your walk, your gestures. There is a 
distinct and positive manifestation given of the law 
of correspondence at work. 

A mind at ease means a body at ease. We are 
all of the chameleon order. We take color from our 
surroundings. We are enveloped in our ocean of 
air with things exactly as we make them; so will 
we assimilate. 

For instance, if you go out in the morning in a 
hateful humor, making life miserable for every¬ 
body in your office, pretty soon they will make 
things the reverse of pleasant for you. You will 
be shunned. But, on the other hand, if you go forth 
in a spirit of love and helpfulness you are met in the 
same spirit and the joy of others fosters and in¬ 
creases the spirit of joy and happiness in you. It 
remains for yourself to determine what you are. If 
you go forth with a long and melancholy face, the 
genial, happy people will give you a wide berth, 
and you will find the truth of the old saying—• 
" Misery loves company.” “ Like seeks like.” 

How often we hear, when two friends meet, 


“THE STEADY LIGHT. 


49 


“ Why, old man, what’s the matter with you ? 
You look as if you hadn’t a friend in the world.” 
And then the man whose melancholy spirit has regis¬ 
tered itself on his melancholy face unreels his sor¬ 
row, and, as soon as decency and politeness permit, 
adieus are said, and the happy man goes on his way 
wondering what his friend sees in what he has re¬ 
lated to make himself so miserable about, and in his 
heart feeling sorry for him. 

In us all there are two wills—the human or lower 
will and the divine or higher will. According to 
whichever rules, will be manifested the character 
of your life. The human will is finite, the divine in¬ 
finite, human will being transmuted into divine, and 
according to the close or distant relationship with 
the infinite spirit will you be strong or weak. If 
you “ lean unto your own understanding.” if you 
exercise your will on the lower or fleshly plane, then 
you are discontent and exposing yourself to undesir¬ 
able influences that are aggressive. 

The spirit is never idle or weary. It never sleeps. 
Within you the Spirit is always ready to respond 
and give you the consciousness of approval of your 


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thoughts, if you surrender your will to the Divine 
will before they become actions. We call this in¬ 
tuition—this conscious power of discernment, but 
it is the divine within us, not coercing us in the least 
but instructing, convincing us, and then we do as 
we see fit and take the consequences of broken laws 
until we are ready to acquiesce. 

We see people affected very seriously, even to 
falling dead by mere news, and yet nothing tangible 
has touched them. The grief or fear upon their 
faces is their mind’s work. The law of correspon¬ 
dence is fulfilled. And so with us; we are affected 
in our bodies by our weaknesses. We have an up¬ 
ward trend. As we keep looking to the spirit for 
guidance there is a constant uplift. The divine will 
being made ours the power according to our needs is 
made ours, but the surrender must be complete; 
there must not be any holding back “ part of the 
price.” The giving of our heart must be absolute. 
“ Love begets love,” and then in accordance with 
what we know to be within the law, it will be as it 
was recorded of old: “ Thou shalt decree a thing, 
and it shall be established unto thee.” 


“THE STEADY LIGHT/* 


Si 


Lay hold of the power within you if you want to 
exercise that power in your life, and as you progress 
under its influence it will become true what Jesus 
said—“ Greater things than these shall ye do.” The 
Spirit’s power never weakens; it is the same yester¬ 
day, to-day and forever. 

Human experiences are simply evolutionary pro¬ 
cesses for the purpose of development. Whatever 
transpires is necessary to carry you forward, and 
it is clear we should welcome whatever raises us. 

Within your consciousness is all of God that you 
know or can know. If the intimacy be close and 
great, then the development of your life becomes 
a marvel. 


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HUMAN FRAILTY. 

Divine power is all strength. In it there is no 
weakness, “ no shadow made by turning.” To the 
divine efforts there can only be one outcome, 
namely, good. The desire is to have everyone over¬ 
come their weaknesses. 

As we look at human nature, the indications are 
clear that the human desire is to better the individ¬ 
ual condition, and when there is no indication of 
that desire, it is to be set down to the ignorance of 
the individual, whose heredity and environment has 
been such that dwarfing has resulted from the very 
aimlessness and animal nature of the being. 

The world has outgrown the doctrine of total 
depravity and vicarious atonement as a remedy for 
sin. The smile of pity greets its enunciation at the 
lips of the superstitiously ignorant. 


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53 


Man is made up of the divine and human, and 
however great the quantity of gravel, it is always 
clear that the diamond of divinity gives value to the 
whole surrounding, for where there is one gem 
found, why not another? The selfish side of hu¬ 
manity is the human one, and it is with this side 
the Divine Spirit labors. 

It is strange how readily we accept the fact of 
the evolution of matter and complacently talk of 
millions of years geologically that have passed while 
nature was slowly doing her work; oftentimes in 
an agony of prolonged, grinding struggle, the great¬ 
ness of which as for instance in the glacial age, is 
often seen in the mighty boulders that resisted dis¬ 
integration, and lie dropped out of the icy embrace. 

We note the uncountable particles that have gone 
to make up the vast piles of the majestic Rocky 
Mountains, and we have no wonder at the fact that 
before us is the evolutionary work of millions of 
years. 

What ground have we to think that spirit, as 
represented in man, has not required just as long 
for its evolution in man thus far? Humanity is 


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undergoing a process of filtering, and today there 
is a vast improvement over the man of a hundred 
years ago. That he is still undeveloped is true, but 
the verdict of observing thinkers is that humanity 
is distinctly better. 

“ Ha! ” says one, “ mankind better ? Look at 
the awful conditions of war between the Japanese 
and Russians.” Well, granted! but look at the re¬ 
sults. Russia, the arrogant terrorist whose whis¬ 
pered Siberia froze the blood in the veins of her 
citizens, has had her punishment for a developing 
purpose. 

For this purpose it raised up these people and for 
years caused them to get ready for this special 
duty, and now they have learned that they must be 
the medium for civilizing the Orient, and they have 
settled down to their mighty task. Their example 
will be followed by China, Thibet, Siam, India, 
Persia, etc., and the result will be rapid enlighten¬ 
ment. 

It is the Divine Power that is doing it. It is 
“ marvellous in our eyes,” and the Russians are 


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seeing now that it was for the best and are rising to 
the issues. 

Behind the national civilization is the individual, 
and every individual has a part of the problem of 
life to work out. The gateway to new fields of use¬ 
fulness lies in the pathway of opportunity, and con¬ 
tentment with the experiences of today means readi¬ 
ness and fitness for higher trusts. 

Each one of us feels the power of the Divine 
within us, using us in the process of evolution, and 
when we submit we become conscious of that power 
and accept its service, and then awaken others to its 
blessing. That is the first step towards getting rid 
of the greatest of all human weakness. Let us get 
away from the awful extremes. 

We want a thing and cannot brook delay, much 
less denial. We perhaps ought not to have our 
desire, but no matter; all the same we want it and 
want it “ right away quick,” as a petulant child 
once said. 

It may be that we are proficient in some certain 
knowledge. We have learned a key to some system 
that gives us facts at a glance. Our pupil is not so 


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furnished. The key cannot be learned in a moment 
and so the impatient mind frets and fumes over the 
dull pupil and makes that pupil dull plus nervous¬ 
ness, until the impatience grows and fairly bursts 
into a flame of passion. When that same pupil is 
instructed by a patient teacher, who explains, the 
progress is rapid. 

Now, the key to it all is self; self, the hot bed of 
selfishness. 

We see plenty of men and women under the spell 
of fascination. Sentiment has gone insane; passion 
is the only thing that will satisfy them. Such 
people flatter themselves with the idea that theirs 
is a very exalted passion. Self in the guise of sen¬ 
suality is puffing them up with highflown notions, 
but the whole attitude on both sides is selfishness. 
One understands it when the mask is dropped, and it 
is seen that the passion is glaring out through hu¬ 
man eyes in mad jealousy. 

No one else must have any consideration. The 
spoiled child so often seen is but a juvenile exhi¬ 
bition of selfishness. 

Thinking too much of your own desires, you 


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cramp and crowd out of life’s intercourse those 
who would make your experiences much pleasanter, 
and ultimately the selfish person finds him or her¬ 
self shunned. 

It would be wasted time and space to follow this 
selfishness into the avenues of commercial life or 
domestic experiences, where self is always upper¬ 
most. Is there not a retribution, domestically, 
when the mistress of the house ignores the interests 
of her servants and simply thinks of her own grati¬ 
fication? Her reward is defective service. 

Morality under coercion will never breed its 
kind, so if we want a moral world of strong be¬ 
ings, there must be a combination of forces, namely, 
mind and love. 

We may intellectually think out what is best for 
ourselves and others, but we may stop there and 
turn to self to see how it will affect our interests, 
individually, to be what is called righteous or good; 
but when the mind has conceived duty clearly, then 
the heart with all its love must say, this course is 
best for humanity, therefore for me. 

Suppose that everybody were to act upon that 


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principle and do as you are prompted to do. Have 
you ever thought how many would be working for 
you, and none against you? Can you not get a 
fraction of the world to work with you ? 

The visual centre for your mind is the character 
of Jesus. His spirit must be yours. “ Neverthe¬ 
less, Father, not my will but thine be done.” Get 
the principles that actuated the Nazarene into your 
mind and you will, by applying them, find yourself 
living the righteous life, and in that life, human 
as it was, you will search in vain for selfishness. 

You may have to readjust much in yourself when 
you make the discovery of your own short-comings, 
but the fact that you see it in yourself, in all its 
loathsomeness, means that the Holy Spirit is bring¬ 
ing to fruition the best within you, and you have 
awakened to the fact that you yourself, regardless 
of church or priest, are possessed of the power to 
overcome. 

Living upon this spiritual instead of carnal plane, 
living for holiness and your fellows instead of self 
and the ramifications of selfishness, you will find 
your understanding of divine things will grow. 


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You will rise higher only as you have achieved 
victory on the lower plane, and nothing experienced 
on the lower can deter you from climbing up and 
being made perfect through so-called suffering. 

“ Work out your own salvation ” gives no solace 
to laziness. It means activity of mind in response 
to the activity of the spirit. 

As the rocks are built of atoms, so your life and 
mine must go to carry out the divine plan. Workers 
together for good ought to be inspiration enough, 
when we think that our work is for others to ad¬ 
vance the kingdom of righteousness, and loyalty to 
the supreme power means for ourselves strength, 
victory and peace. 


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LOVE, MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE. 

From the origin of human life through the 
avenues of physical and spiritual development, and 
from these into the field of the exercise of our 
forces, we have progressed, noting the means of 
strength and evidences of weakness manifested in 
the home and in the world, and now we are ready to 
step into the domestic sanctuary and consider the 
triple subjects of Love, Marriage and Divorce. 

Love. How can the human mind explain the 
thing divine? It is impossible. All we can do is 
to examine into some of its manifestations and by 
the study of its working detect the false claim from 
the true. 

The blindness of modern society lies in the classi¬ 
fying of love with sentimental fascination, born 
of mere attraction—physical attraction. 


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Loving and liking are two distinct and different 
things. Love is a divine quality and therefore un¬ 
mixed with animalism. It is the breath of purity, 
giving to the heart its new experience of exquisite 
appreciation. It first buds into respect and admira¬ 
tion of qualities of human worth, and when the bud 
opens into the flower there is a reverence akin to 
worship, which closes the individual’s eyes to all 
but the dear form enthroned; and when the day of 
fruitage comes, then there is no more heart hunger 
but always the satisfied mind having the full joy of 
absolute possession, and the unassailable confidence 
of supremacy secured. 

As with the magnet, a score of substances may 
be brought to claim its influence, but there is no re¬ 
sponse—no attraction. The finest gem, the richest 
marble, the clearest glass, all seek the holding, draw¬ 
ing power in vain. It remains for the steel alone 
to feel the distinct compulsion to be joined—made 
one; two separate pieces of metal, it is true, but 
held as one by the magnetic current that flows in¬ 
visibly. 

So with two minds in love. They are by so 


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subtle a force God-joined that “ wed in heaven ” is 
true. They are so intermeshed that naught but 
death can sever the earthly union. 

Who can aver that human love, once lighted by 
divinity, would ever dim, much less be quenched, be¬ 
cause death sunders fleshly ties. 

Love is the fulfilling of the law divine, and each 
is satisfied with the full consciousness that each for 
themselves, body and mind, is the chosen one of all 
the known people of the earth. 

As for divorce between such two, as well might 
it be thought that air would seek to split its gaseous 
units from their close embrace. The only separation 
of such love is found in such destruction as the 
hand of death may work, which puts an end to 
earthly unity of being. 

Ideal love, such as I have endeavored to portray 
in the opening of this chapter, is seemingly an in¬ 
frequently met with thing in this matter-of-fact 
world, but that is largely because they who seek it 
expect it to come in a procession with a brass band 
to give it notoriety, when the truth is it is found 
chiefly by the hedgerows of life, living out its sweet 


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happy days as with pervading perfume, like the 
roadside violets possess. It sets a modest, genuine 
example to humanity in couples. 

I do not for one moment deny that there are re¬ 
spectable people who, being married by the church, 
or officer of the rules of men, have settled down to 
quiet tolerance of each other. There might even be 
some very proper tears if either died, and all the 
world might think that the desolated house meant 
desolated hearts, but— 

The properties of life cover up many of the graves 
in the churchyard of hope, and little is it dreamed 
of the ache that gnaws at the centre of life. It may 
be the tastes differ, and that makes a gap. It may 
be that sect and creed are sundering wedges. Per¬ 
haps the trouble lurks in affection blunted by cold¬ 
ness until it becomes discouraged and lets its ten¬ 
drils climb out through life’s window and twine 
around a more responsive form. 

The chronic grumble, the discontented face, the 
chillness of grave propriety, afraid to act out natur¬ 
ally the nature God has given, is oftentimes the un¬ 
dertaker that coffins the dead-liking which for so 


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long did duty as the thing called Love—which was 
the seeming warrant for the marriage that has 
tied two bodies in bondage that is a torture to the 
minds that ought to be loosed ere they propagate so 
discontented a species as would come from this 
ill-judged marriage. 

It is a shadow on human judgment that for so 
long the mismated have been yoked together when 
they are in no sense calculated to work in harmony. 
Woman has her sovereign rights of person, as has 
man, and while in the ideal marriage there is a 
sweet and holy surrender to each other of all the 
gifts and graces that give life its glory, yet even in 
the heartless marriage there is a discipline that re¬ 
fines the nature. Too much has been made of the 
sacrament of matrimony, and too little of the holier 
sacrament of love. “ Marriage is entered into 
lightly, unadvisedly and indiscreetly.” 

In the order in which the caption of this chapter 
is headed, the subject must be considered, for Love 
is the supreme element in human happiness and 
should always precede marriage. 

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everlasting rock of love, and however wild the 
storm outside, within all is light and peace, while 
on the world the happy home shines out, a “ bea¬ 
con ” to struggling, drifting, unmarried humanity, 
to tell them of a harbor of safety. 

In a well-ordered home the husband is the 
supporting Atlas of its needs, the wife the wise 
director of its numerous economies. She, as its 
rightful, undisputed queen, lives in her domain of 
domesticity, making it a delight for him she loves. 
He enters it with reverence because no other spot on 
earth can claim its name; no other woman occupy its 
throne. Her gentle, tasteful touch transforms it; 
her presence graces it, and for the outside world 
there is no fascination. 

Both he and she live not solely for themselves, 
but each for the other, and that compasses those 
varied interests of others that are brought before 
them to the extinguishment of selfishness. 

When children come, the mother has the care and 
daily, momentary responsibility, for she is raising 
pillars for the state. Her mind must be well poised 
to steer between too lax a discipline that spoils the 


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child or that harsh course which blunts the sensibili¬ 
ties and breeds a fearsome, hunted look on child¬ 
hood’s face. 

When in the course of years the family has 
grown into young manhood and womanhood, then 
may the experienced matron go outside her home to 
be a city mother, giving the school boards and city 
fathers hints for children’s welfare that tend to 
health and happiness and are not apt to occur to 
men. Then may the city mother give to the church 
her services for the practical uplifting of the more 
restricted who have not been blessed with so much 
of this world’s goods as they. 

Thus will the wife go, silver crowned, to the 
grave that will be decked with loving memories, as 
immortelles that will know no withering. Hus¬ 
band for the world, wife for home; both for human¬ 
ity; this is the circle in which true love delights to 
move. 

As for divorce, that useful executioner, a welcome 
headsman for domestic difficulty, let us be thankful. 

To grant a divorce to every discontented pair, 
who to-morrow might review their act and wish to 


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be remarried, is not the intent or purpose of the law. 

When from the bench the judge has rendered his 
decree, it is for the Church to bow to that authority 
and place no social stigma on the couple. The evi¬ 
dence within the law has caused him to issue his 
decree. Therefore, the commonsense of dissolving 
unequal unions is so clear that its divinity overrides 
the rules made by man that would oppose it. 


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THE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT 
OF WOMAN. 

The human body is a machine, and while all are 
made after the same general pattern there is a great 
difference in the delicacy of adjustment, which re¬ 
sults in a difference in what is accomplished. 

Modern civilization is the grit that wears down 
the well-fitted parts of the human system under the 
artificial speed that is generated, and sooner or later 
things that should be close set, compact and under 
command, become loose and disconnected and the 
power of life waning, the results of life with the 
body are painfully disappointing. 

The perfect type of physical womanhood is a 
rarity. Not all the chicness and wound-up vivacity 
can cloak from the observant eye the fact that the 
machinery is jolty and the “ run-down times ” are 
numerous when they “ don’t feel good for any¬ 
thing.” 


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Causes for the effects are very numerous and of¬ 
tentimes overlooked, for the disastrous condition of 
the body may not be wilfully brought about. 

If we look at the ordinary domestic life, we note 
that woman, forgetting what is due to her own in¬ 
ternal organs, violates the first principles of health 
by the methods of living. The brain is kept under 
undue excitement by the artificial demands of home. 
Things are run at a high pressure and the outcome 
is a wearing away of the machinery. It wobbles. 
Every little thing out of the ordinary jars, and the 
nose of the individual sniffs indifference in the air. 

The waters of life spread over the surface, breed¬ 
ing the mosquitoes of spectral trouble, which bite 
and bite and bite until the mind wails out its misery. 
From the foul outspread, the miasmatic poison 
breeds social malaria in the whole being. Nothing 
goes right; no one was ever so abused; discourage¬ 
ment prevails. 

It is but the hallucination of “ a mind diseased ” 
and contrasts strangely with the contented mind, the 
healthy mind, that has gathered all the waters of life 
into the canal of duty and cheerfully sends her ships 


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of endeavor, full freighted, to minister comfort to 
a needy world that wants just what she can give and 
is ready to exchange its commodities in return. 
And so the life flows gently on, and all humanity is 
blessed. 

To remedy this condition is our aim, and to this 
end there must be pointed out the limitations of life 
that are responsible. 

Derangements of the digestive organs in the 
over-excited organisms are brought about by un¬ 
fitness in diet. At first in the hey-dey time, any¬ 
thing can be eaten and consequences coming slowly, 
indiscretions are persisted in. Hot breads and 
richly seasoned foods with stimulating drinks take 
out the nervous force to produce nature’s digestants, 
but ere long, nature overtaxed, sulks and refuses to 
do her wholesome work as she was wont, and thus 
the ill-selected food decays and gaseous eructations 
are nature’s audible protests against the imposition. 

To go into detail as to the several items would be 
to discount the physician’s skill and usefulness, for 
to his scientifically trained judgment must it be left 
to decide what diet will supply what nature needs. 


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Experience teaches the ignorant “ what is one 
man’s meat is another man’s poison,” and in the 
stomach when the secretions are deficient, it is 
the mission of the doctor to discover what is lacking 
and removing the cause, supply the lacking thing. 

Passing from gastronomic follies that exhaust the 
forces, we find lack of air and sunshine followed by 
late hours and hot rooms in which the air is foul, 
added to the other ills referred to, and you begin to 
see that nature is not to blame, but you. You have 
produced derangement, and so the mind, affected by 
the body, takes on a like discomfort, and clouds 
come down and drench the brain with tears. 

As we progress in civilization we come into the 
knowledge of that which is for the best interests of 
the body. 

Our women, the mothers of to-day and future 
days, seem to think fashion of more importance 
than health. They follow up the unreal uncon¬ 
sciously. When fashion decrees a new garment, the 
rank and file of society adopt it. The reasonable 
diameter of the waist finds itself by the fiat of this 
tyrant radically reduced. So the breathing is inter- 


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fered with, and therefore the proper oxygenation 
of the blood, and from that ill-fed, ill-cleansed blood 
new obstacles to health have birth. 

The skin becomes sallow because the liver is con¬ 
stricted and the poor stomach is shoved into quar¬ 
ters that are too confining; and thus the neighboring 
heart voices its complaint and the dulled brain needs 
artificial stimulation to enable the individual to hold 
the place of social brightness. 

Give your body a “ square deal." Do not fill 
your skin up with compositions that prevent the 
penetration of the air and close up the pores so that 
they cannot free the system from what has already 
done its work. Cleanse the intestinal canal and 
keep it clean; for that consult your doctor as to the 
best means, but do not keep the delicate villi and 
the glands of the digestive apparatus under the 
muscular and nervous force rolling round and 
round, smearing with the juices that out of which 
the best has been secured and which, further treated, 
means only the absorption of what is poisonous and 
decayed. 

It is the duty of womanhood to bring to its high- 


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est possible development the body with which they 
are endowed. Why do we study physical culture? 
Is it not that we may be able to manifest, in a beau¬ 
tiful manner, the highest sentiments of the mind? 
The life to be lived is in the now. What can be 
made of one’s self in this our day is our concern. 

We are doing the best for any future life there 
may be (of which we can assert nothing). The 
race development is going on and the trend is up¬ 
ward. 

Think of the joy that will be yours when there 
dawns upon you the sense and consciousness of 
your own progress. When you see the growth and 
symmetry of your own being immerged from the 
lower sphere, and on the greater height attained, it 
may be by your laborious climbing, you will stand 
with clearer vision and a wider horizon and courage 
to make new efforts of progress, filled with a cheer¬ 
ful spirit because you are in your life, obediently and 
persistently carrying out the divine will that has set 
the goal for you to work towards; whatever amount 
of power be accomplished through so-called suffer¬ 
ing is simply refining education. 


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RELIGION AND ITS PURPOSE. 

The heart of humanity is the altar of faith. Go 
where you will, whether in the cultured resorts of 
the civilized, or the wild fastnesses of the African 
forest, where the grade of humanity is little above 
the animals that they share it with, and you will 
find religious faith in some rude form—faith in the 
unseen. It serves to mold their life, acting as a re¬ 
straining terrorism or a stimulus to action. 

For us who enjoy the benefits of human advance¬ 
ment, that we call civilization, it is all important 
that we should appreciate the fact that religion is 
a great agency in developing the physical health, 
and it must be apparent that to be this it must be 
the right religion. 

It is no part of our purpose to censure or criticise 
any of the denominations called churches, who re- 


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gard their religious belief under the name of Chris¬ 
tianity, nor do we fail to give to all credit for 
sincerity and good motives; but whether it be from 
a misunderstanding or unadaptability of the teach¬ 
ing to the needs of men and women, there are a 
large number of both sexes who do not enjoy the 
benefits that true religion gives. 

True religion must have for its foundation, Love, 
and in all its superstructure that great principle 
must be manifested. All experiences that are in 
the path of love are uplifting. They are the strug¬ 
gles of the mind to a higher plane. For instance, 
we have the word liking, standing for something 
less than love. It may be born of fascination, but 
the man who likes is just that much better and more 
expanded in his nature than the man who does not. 

There are some who are uncertain as to the plane 
on which they stand, but who have the power in 
themselves to rise above it, and it may be that the 
descriptive word of the lower plane, will serve to 
rouse the mind’s ambition to be what it may be. 

We all have to climb the mountain path of life 
and are at different altitudes, but the most of us are 


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quick to see the unwisdom of a by-path that 
lengthens the road, and they who are slower to act 
will learn in due time to get into the upward path 
again. 

It may be through a shadowed experience but the 
outcome is assured—the Holy Spirit in us will not 
be overcome. “ In tune with the infinite ” is the 
ultimate result, and who will be content to long 
sound the deeper notes of human lust, when he can 
run the gamut up to notes of purity? 

It may delight us to use the powers of our baser 
selves, because we know no better, but once awak¬ 
ened to the possibility of higher joy, through the 
most willing power of the divine spirit within us, 
who will delay in making the experiment to achieve 
the greater happiness ? 

I need not paint with words the pangs of mind 
and body that come of these strivings. The open 
sore is bare, but it can be healed—not by yourself 
but by the mighty power of the “ Comforter.’’ The 
consciousness that there is no room for censure or 
condemnation is the first thing to be learned. Be¬ 
lieve what is a fact—that every one is doing the very 


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best he can with his nature, handicapped as it is 
by heredity and environment, and then set to work 
to help humanity to know that they are overcoming 
the hereditary weakness. 

The desire of the righteous is to help up, to get 
others to helping themselves, and you and I must 
be ready to acknowledge that the brother or sister 
who feels despondent is doing something, and can 
do more for his or her development. That kind of 
religion is the very kernel of religion. “ Pure and 
undefiled religion is this ”—to do something, “ to 
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and 
to keep one’s self unspotted from the world.” Here 
you have activity and personal purity. 

The effect of all religious effort of this kind is 
to check excesses, prevent indolence and give exulta¬ 
tion to character. Get a man or woman to have a 
sense of their own importance and value to others, 
and you cause him or her to walk about with head 
erect, certain that he or she has a mission in life, 
namely, to help others by example. 

Convinced of the omnipresence of love, and also 
its omnipotence, and assured that divinity is love 


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and that you are the temple of that divinity, then 
at once you must begin to exercise that divine 
power within you, and here you must begin to 
think love, feel love, choose love. Get into har¬ 
mony with the spirit of righteousness, clear out 
from your mind all thoughts of hate; let the love 
light in you banish the darkness; think no more of 
being hateful and saying the hateful thing and do¬ 
ing the revengeful act, but rise to the height your 
spiritual sovereignty entitles you to and replace that 
unkind thought with a kind one. Make allowances 
for others whose heredity or environment may be 
worse than your own; put yourself in another’s 
place and think of your lack of development and 
the other’s good deeds. When the unkind thought 
arises, dismiss it and instantly fix your mind upon 
some thought that will be helpful. 

Such thinking will produce feeling—good feel¬ 
ing; you will be happier; you will feel cleaner- 
minded; you will feel that you are distinctly better. 
Your very step will be lighter, you will be proud 
of your victory; you will feel the new strength in 


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your being; you will get the habit of right thinking, 
and conscious of your new feeling as the result, 
you will realize that as a free agent you have the 
right now to choose. You will make selection of 
thought, because a certain kind has a distinct re¬ 
lation to your comfort—your physical well-being. 

You have realized in the past that when you have 
been angry it has made you feel badly; you have 
had to excuse yourself to yourself; justify your 
thoughts and also your words; you have felt weak 
as the outcome of your passion, your bitterness. 
For your own physical welfare you have thought 
out the folly of such a course and the feelings pro¬ 
duced, and you have deliberately chosen to work 
with the understanding that everything is working 
ultimate good. 

Perhaps you have had avaricious thoughts, a 
craving for money or power; it has possessed you 
and everything in life has had to yield to it. How 
to get rich quick has been the burning question. 
You have worked at it in the day time until you 
were ready to drop. You have done things to help 


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it along that were so unwise that you blush to think 
back on them. The sop to your conscience that 
“ business is business ” does not soothe; your mind 
is outraged; it wearies itself through the night 
with the burning problem; the healthy color goes 
from your face and the elasticity from your limbs; 
your shoulders stoop; your eyes grow dull. True, 
your bank account may swell but there is no good 
feeling for you; your fellows say unkind things of 
you; you lose caste; in short, you are physically 
undergoing a change because your thoughts were 
unkind and your choice unwise. 

There is no unkind, unwholesome thought but has 
its physical effect and discounts the bodily comfort, 
and no good, loving thought, right thought , filled 
with kindness that does not result in physical good 
feeling and a continued lofty choice of the better 
things of life. 

The manifestations in the flesh of derangement 
are not to be diagnosed after the manner of an erup¬ 
tion of smallpox or scarlet fever. They demand 
the skilful consideration of an expert whose own 


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spiritual vision is so exalted that spiritual discern¬ 
ment is the result, and for the ills that afflict the 
body there is no panacea, no cure-all. It is abso¬ 
lutely necessary for a cure that spiritual and mental 
harmony be induced, so that the physician’s physical 
remedy may not be resisted by the condition, and 
the combination treatment is the key to success. 

Religion does not consist of any formal round 
of ecclesiastically appointed duties; these may be 
crutches to lame minds, but real religion is the active 
demonstration of right thinking and right doing. 
Christianity as Jesus taught it, accomplishes a dis¬ 
tinct uplift for a human being, and the churches of 
the various denominations, in so far as they carry 
out the principles of Jesus, are the moral police 
force. 

The test of genuine truth lies in the fact that it 
does not controvert the qualities of righteousness or 
goodness, for divinity is love and the only genuine 
bit in many of the manufactured spheres is that 
which has in it no flaw of hate, weakness or con¬ 
demnation. 


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Let it be the purpose of the reader of this book to 
hold to that essential principle and to manifest the 
working of his belief in his or her readiness to 
aid in any good work that love has originated for 
the uplifting of humanity. 

“ The Church of Practical Religion ” has for its 
membership all humanity. See to it that there is 
no failure on your part to be a worthy member; 
then you will not need to grieve if you are deemed 
unfitted for fellowship by any of the various sects 
with whom you fail intellectually to agree, because 
they failed to adopt the one, great, vital principal. 

There are about you pure, gentle individuals who 
work with the Holy Spirit—who care nothing for 
their denominational label. If they will work with 
you, go work with them in promoting righteousness 
that the nation may be exalted. Infuse into the 
barren, lethargic life some of your own energy; 
seek their help. 

Is there an individual who never dreams of the 
straits and perplexities of her poorer neighbors— 
who knows nothing of the work it takes to clothe a 
family and care for daily needs—perhaps with a 


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baby in her arms as she drives herself to household 
duties? See if you cannot awaken a sense of re¬ 
sponsibility until it blossoms into sympathetic ac¬ 
tion. The great Phillips Brooks could take a 
mother’s care upon him and nurse the baby while the 
weary mother went out for a breath of fresh air. 

Many a good housekeeper is haunted by the piled- 
up needlework that has to be done with only one 
pair of hands to do it. Do you say you cannot sew ? 
(More’s the pity.) Well, someone else can, and if 
you will deny yourself some needless, it may be 
foolish, luxury, that money will hire it done, and 
the glad light of appreciation will be reflected from 
two pairs of eyes and be seen to glow in the gladness 
of your own. 

That which may be to your taste and which meets 
the religious requirements of your own mind, is 
well for you to do, but see to it that you do not leave 
the other undone. While you are acting, you will 
also be preaching—preaching that best kind of 
silent sermon that is vivified by the spirit and love 
of God. No mind is so dull as not to understand it, 
and its language is translatable by all. 


8 4 


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It is the revelation of an evolutionary life, spent 
like that of the Master Jesus in doing good. It is 
the food of the being, by which it gains in strength, 
and behind such a righteous life there is a safe and 
shining pathway that echoes with the invitation of 
him who inspires it. Follow me! 


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85 


MERCY. 

The stern face of an imaginary justice has served 
to give satisfaction to the undeveloped elements of 
mankind, and arbitrary rules, its sober mate, has 
bred a Spartan progeny, but for all that stern human 
leaning it is not the attribute that divinity exhibits— 
and that we may learn to discriminate between so- 
called justice and the lovingness of mercy this chap¬ 
ter is written. 

Love never approaches humanity in suffering, 
with blinded eyes, but with the holy quality of open- 
visioned mercy and brings to the mad and strug¬ 
gling spirit so sweet a touch and look of sympathy 
that the embittered mind, inflamed by the weakness 
of bad heredity and undesirable environment, is 
wide-eyed with astonishment to think that human 
nature finds another way to reach the God-like 


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element in the human being than by the lash and 
prison house. 

The law of kindness is a part of the constitution 
of the kingdom of righteousness, and this is the 
operative force that makes the harrowed spirit con¬ 
scious that there is an uplifting power at work, and 
that in the “ vilest of the vile ” so-called, there is a 
process of evolutionary refinement going on, that no 
matter how slowly, is working out the development 
of even that “ way-down soul. ,, 

Go to the places of punishment and what kind of 
atmosphere do you find ? How faint and feeble the 
evidence of encouragement! The stern face of 
blindfolded justice gives no smile of sympathy and 
the hopeless spirit of the prisoner gets hardened and 
defiant as, with set teeth, the discipline is accepted 
because it is the prison rule. Never for one moment 
is the lesson withheld that punishment is the present 
object of existence in prison. 

Reform may be desired and talked about, but the 
opportunity to reform does not come through the 
channel of hard prison regime. The brand of crimi¬ 
nal is burned into the being, and the desire is to im- 


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87 


press the mind of the unfortunate that he is one 
of the wild beasts of society, who needed locking 
up and further brutalizing to stamp out the very 
idea of power to work up from the low level. 

There is an amount of give, or elasticity, in duty 
which, understood, would make life easier for all 
and encourage the tender sproutings of a better 
nature that are coming up out of the hard soil. It 
has been proven again and again what can be done 
in rescuing by the operation of the law of kindness. 

Mercy, as supreme, is by the subordinate Justice 
ignored. The story of temptation and provocation 
is unheeded. If Mercy, through all her officers gave 
an upward lift, and thus the indwelling power to 
climb was recognized and utilized, what a revolu¬ 
tion would be worked. Lost in the prison world is 
what happens, and when the prison door opens it is 
to let the unfortunate into the “ undercrust ” where 
the helps to redeem life are not as enthusiastically 
applied as they will be. Mercy should go hand in 
hand with kindness and keep the weak from the 
clutches of the ignorant. There is a power in en- 


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couragement and sweet souledness that is never 
exercised in vain. 

It is said that in a certain penitentiary there was 
confined for life a supposed desperate character who 
was treated by all with that suspicious discipline 
which might be exercised towards a panther whose 
spring could be made at any moment, and who had 
to be guarded against. 

As a part of his duty he was required to clean 
certain brasses that adorned the railings. While 
thus engaged the warden appeared with a visiting 
party consisting of a gentleman and his wife and 
child. The little one was tired, and running over to 
the convict said, “ Take me up and tarry me; I’se 
tired.” The man not knowing what to do, hesitated, 
and the warden said, “ Take her up,” to which the 
father agreed. 

Around on the tour of inspection the child was 
carried. A new light came into the man’s hard face. 
The little one petted his cheek with her hand and 
kept her arm around his neck. Back to the point of 
starting the party came and the convict reverently 
and very gently put the child down, and as he did 

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89 


the little one held up her face and said to the pris¬ 
oner, “ Tiss me.” He shook his head as the color 
suffused his cheeks, and the father said in a kindly 
voice, “ Kiss her ”—and the warden bowed assent. 

The little one’s arms went around his neck and 
her cheek was laid against his; her lips touched it 
with a childish caress. 

Disengaging himself from the child’s embrace he 
sank upon the stair and buried his face in his hands; 
the tears fell upon the floor at his feet, and with a 
voice broken by emotion he said, “ Mr. Warden, you 
have had your last trouble from me.” And it was 
declared that he was as good as his word and there 
was no better prisoner in that penitentiary. The 
kindness and confidence were developing powers. 

What was the fact? Why, that poor soul had 
never known a kind word. The trust and caress of 
that child and the father’s kindliness had made him 
conscious of the divine within him; there was no 
need to name it as the Holy Spirit. To him it was 
the blush of Love’s sunrise over his darkened world 
and his spirit responded with the result that his 


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actions reflected the accepted influence. The little 
child had led him. 

The quality of Mercy is largely an unused power. 
It is a sweet and gentle attribute of righteousness 
and “ becomes the throned monarch better than his 
crown; ” and “ earthly power does show most likest 
God’s when Mercy seasons Justice.” 

He who sits as judge fails most lamentably when 
he assumes the countenance that augurs to the pris¬ 
oner the ferocity of arbitrary rules. Justice has its 
sphere in honorable office, but only as the steward 
of Mercy; never should it sit upon the bench alone; 
it should have Mercy at its side. And if the human 
rule requires that its mandates be obeyed, then 
should kindness bring the scales of Justice down 
upon the prisoner’s side, for he or she it is who 
stands helpless on the threshold of a harsh experi¬ 
ence at the best, and at that very moment the law 
of love should be exhibited to show that hope has 
not been murdered but that from that moment of 
conviction the law of kindliness will come in force to 
bring the better nature to the front. 

Alas! it is not to these poor criminals that Justice 


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9i 


sometimes runs in haste while Mercy drags or loiters 
by the way. There are those woundings of the 
mind by loveless tongues which thoughtlessly tear 
wide apart instead of closing up the wound. The 
scar at best is always noticeable, but when the 
the tongues of flame “ on fire of hell ” (as a poetic 
mind in the Bible puts it) burn a wide gap, and all 
the world, as it were, gets the odor of burning— 
burning reputation, feelings, home interests, re¬ 
spectability, all that makes life dear—does it not 
seem most fitting that Mercy should step in and 
silence them in kindliness, and go forth to bring the 
balm of peace into the stricken lives and strive to 
awaken them to speedy usefulness? 

As a poet has said, so should it be: 

“ When Justice sits enthroned, let Mercy glide 
Into the vacant seat at Justice’ side. 

Then when the stern brow in zeal contracts 
And souls are harrowed by the darkening facts, 

The sword of Justice with its sharpened blade 
Into the scale by stern hands are laid, 

And eyes grow cold and by the lips compressed 
The purpose of the rules stand forth confessed. 

Then let sweet Mercy with her winning smile 
Plead that the guilty one is not so vile, 

And ere the sentence takes its arrow flight 
Turning the free man’s day to guilty night, 


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Bidding him walk the dreary earth alone 

With his fair fame by the rules of man destroyed and gone, 

Let her infuse into the Judge’s ear 

The quality of Mercy held so dear 

Until the softening light shall flood his eyes 

As the bright sun illuminates the skies ; 

And love enkindled in his human breast, 

He strains the law and does his level best 
For him condemned, by conduct to attest 
That he is worthy of sweet Mercy’s care, 

And for her love will strive to do and dare 

Until he wins the forfeited place 

And from his life dissolves the dark disgrace, 

Winning his way by righteousness and truth 
Back to the beauty of his soul in youth.” 

All through our country is a tidal wave of op¬ 
position to the dishonesty of corporations and the 
evils of political graft, but is it not plain that this 
very clamor against the doings of certain ones is 
working a reformation? These are not bad men 
who seek to enrich themselves; they are proving 
that in many ways. They only need to be fully 
made conscious that their powers are not alone to 
be used for their own welfare, but for the welfare 
of the world in which they live and are stewards. 

Can it be conceived what such exalted genius 
might achieve if it were only conscious that it could 
be, and should be, expanded for the benefit of the 


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93 


race? Here it is that the dignity of Mercy would 
lend glory to Justice and the world gain a truer and 
nobler conception of what Justice should be. That 
this will work out to this high standard in time is 
true, but is it not your privilege and mine to help 
it on and make men and women aware of what has 
been, and is being accomplished for human uplift? 

The possible ignorance of, or carelessness regard¬ 
ing Justice, gives the world no stimulus to act out 
the needed principles, and it is to set humanity 
reached by this book to thinking along the lines of 
selfhelp that the writer ventures to put forth old 
truths in new light—not that the masses of human¬ 
ity should accept her as a leader or apostle of some 
new fad, but as one who, having seen “ The Steady 
Light/’ wants others to be helped by the illumina¬ 
tion. 

While we see all that abides in the darkness and 
constitutes the facts of what men and women call 
evil, we rise to a higher level and become aware 
that there is something better to contemplate than 
the darkness, as we behold the power and working 
of the light. 


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REAL PROGRESS. 

The experiences of humanity in the processes of 
development are not always encouraging, and the in¬ 
cidents that are called suffering are, in the blindness 
that accompanies them, apt to discourage and take 
the joy out of life. 

For those who set their career down as a failure 
and reproach themselves for what they call their 
own blundering, it ought to be a consolation to 
know, that better than they do they cannot do, for 
they are doing their best, handicapped as they are 
by the infirmities of their ancestors, as well as the 
environments that surround them. 

The law of righteousness is what all humanity 
come up against. There is nothing beyond that in 
development. That is the Holy Spirit’s charter to 
humanity, giving to him or her who obeys accord- 


“THE STEADY LIGHT." 95 

ing to knowledge, the satisfaction of accomplishing 
something. 

There is not a day but is a day of progression— 
a day in which the consequences of heredity are 
slowly set aside by the will of the man or woman 
who becoming conscious of indwelling power, real¬ 
izes that it is resistless, and when this is recognized 
it enables the intelligence of the climber to experi¬ 
ence an advance. 

How short-sighted it is for the critic of ignorant 
humanity to launch out into condemnation. What 
would he be if his hereditary influence were no bet¬ 
ter than that of the man or woman he condemns? 
How can the man of inherited weakness, with an 
undesirable environment, do better—save his fel¬ 
lows—make them conscious that it lies in his power 
not only to do it because he must, but to be a witness 
to his own uplift. 

The so-called ills of the world are all remediable 
by education and enlightenment. It is the ignorance 
of humanity that makes progress slow. 

Evolution is going on, and even what are known 
as the most iniquitous or foolish are simply acting 


96 


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out what they cannot help. If we approach the one 
doing so with the idea that to us there is no good 
in him, that he is all bad, and ignore the fact that 
what he is doing has in it eliminative power, that 
there can be appreciation of even such as he, and a 
genuine pleasure in educating him to value what he 
is losing through ignorance. 

Once awakened, he realizing betterment is going 
on, works for the overcoming of hereditary weak¬ 
ness and produces for himself a new environment, 
and the gain to himself and others by just the knowl¬ 
edge of what he is doing and can do, is a source of 
joy to himself and fellows. 

Grasping the idea of righteousness and the revela¬ 
tions concerning it, he desires to become righteous 
because therein lies happiness and power. The ex¬ 
periences of life are all educative, and what is re¬ 
garded as sin or failure is only such in our eyes be¬ 
cause we do not know the purpose of it. 

Let us do the will of the Holy Spirit and the en¬ 
lightenment will be ours. 


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THE FINAL WORD. 

The importance of the matters considered, and 
the need of their mental retention, has made it seem 
advisable to reiterate in these pages the truth put 
forth. It is the writer’s desire to be perfectly clear 
in the enunciation of the great basic facts that under¬ 
lie this work for the awakening of humanity. 

Wherever God is referred to, it is simply as one 
of the many names used to denote the one Supreme 
Spirit, the Holy Spirit, that is in all humanity. 

It is this Spirit that is working out the grand 
problem, and every soul is subject to it. The Spirit 
is the life in man which the human powers manifest. 

There are no mistakes or failures—progress is the 
law. Delays may be caused by heredity or environ¬ 
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